Combined mode quirk removal kills performance

Combined mode quirk removal kills performance

[Frank Sorenson]

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The patch to "remove combined mode quirk" (git bisect says
8cdfb29c0cd8018f92214c11c631d8926f4cb032) makes my laptop run slower
than a dead sloth.  "hdparm -T" indicates that buffered disk reads on my
hard drive drop from 48-50 MB/sec to 1-2MB/sec, and the system is nearly
unusable.

System is a Dell Inspiron E1705 (Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz) running x86_64 FC6.

Frank
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Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK
Linux Systems Engineer, DSS Engineering, UBS AG
frank@tuxrocks.com
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Re: Combined mode quirk removal kills performance

[Stephen Clark]

Frank Sorenson wrote:

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>The patch to "remove combined mode quirk" (git bisect says
>8cdfb29c0cd8018f92214c11c631d8926f4cb032) makes my laptop run slower
>than a dead sloth.  "hdparm -T" indicates that buffered disk reads on my
>hard drive drop from 48-50 MB/sec to 1-2MB/sec, and the system is nearly
>unusable.
>
>System is a Dell Inspiron E1705 (Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz) running x86_64 FC6.
>
>Frank
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>Frank Sorenson - KD7TZK
>Linux Systems Engineer, DSS Engineering, UBS AG
>frank@tuxrocks.com
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Hi Frank,

I had the same problem. I am running FC6 and had to build a custom 
kernel that did not configure
in the old ide driver - then my speed of my harddrive went back to normal.

HTH,
Steve

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